libVLC
You can embed libVLC into your application to gain audio/video playing features.
Tutorials
Here are three different tutorials on libVLC:
- Visual C++ Tutorial (uses "old" legacy API)
- Tutorial for version 0.8.6c
- Tutorial for version 0.9.x
- Tutorial for current version
Related
Sample Code
- Generate thumbnails using LibVLC
- Use LibVLC in an SDL application
- Use LibVLC in an Qt application
- Generate a .lib for using libVLC on Windows
Bindings
- wxWidgets MediaCtrl backend[c++]
- On Mac OS X there you can use libvlc through some Objective-C class using the Mac OS X Framework.
- Currently it exists Java, Python and .NET bindings around LibVLC.
Documentation
- The documentation on the external API is here: ExternalAPI
- LibVLC Memory Management explained. It covers the basics on the _new(), _retain(), _release().
- LibVLC Media List Management explained. It covers the basics on how to set up a list of media or a playlist.
- libvlc doxygen documentation. Generated documentation from source code
